Live on NJPW World:>DEATH VEGAS INVITACIONALTHU 4/16 @ 11pm(EDT), 4/17 4am(BST)>Road to WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026SUN 4/19 @ 5:30am(EDT) 10am(BST) Tokyo・Korakuen HallMON 4/20 @ 5:30am(EDT) 10am(BST) Tokyo・Korakuen HallFRI 4/24 @ 6am(EDT) 11am(BST) Ehime・TEXPORT IMABARI>WRESTLING REDZONE in HIROSHIMASAT 4/25 @ 4am(EDT) 9am(BST) Hiroshima・Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall>Road to WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026 SUN 4/26 @ 4am(EDT) 9am(BST) Yamaguchi・KDDI Ishin Hall>~Wrestling Hizen no Kuni~ WED.4/29 4am(EDT) 9am(BST) Saga・SAGA ARENA>WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026 SAT 5/3 @ 5am(EDT) / 10am(BST) Fukuoka・Fukuoka Convention CenterSUN 5/4 @ 2am(EDT) / 7am(BST) Fukuoka・Fukuoka Convention CenterLast thread >>20193903
>Thank you for supporting New Japan Pro-Wrestling. >On April 12 in Vancouver Canada at AEW's Dynasty event, Gabe Kidd, who was scheduled to challenge Yota Tsuji for the IWGP Global heavyweight Championship May 3 at Dontaku, sustained an injury to his right arm and will not be able to compete. >We apologise to fans who were looking forward to seeing Kidd wrestle and appreciate your understanding.>Yota Tsuji will still defend the IWGP Global title May 3 in the main event of Dontaku night one. An announcement will follow when a new challenger has been determined. >NJPW joins fans in wishing Kidd a speedy, full recovery. https://www.njpw1972.com/640511
Gaped Klitt is out lol
>>20246571>NJPW joins fans in wishing Kidd a speedy, full recovery.kek what a kek. sadly he got cursed by inoki
>>20246571>An announcement will follow when a new challenger has been determined.So likely AEW sends someone else. They're probably sending someone like Archer or Claudio.
Yota Tsuji fucking sucks
>>20246557love these niggas like you wouldn’t believe
There's hope, bros
MYSTERY NIGGAS
>>20246618He'll put more effort in when he's in LTJ fighting Alpha Wolf and Masa Kitamiya
>>20247095
MAKE WAYFOR THE GRIM
YOH is wrestling Antonio Honda on the DDT show right now.
>>20247220>more shindy gay shitgrim
>>20247220Happy for YOH who is going to have fun.
>YOH: Anton, I learnt how to do the Gongitsune. Can I use it too!? I'll use it in New JapanOh god
>>20247220Very next match has HARASHIMA up against a zesty Takeshita clone and a dude in actual joshi gear with PAWG straps. What happened?
>>20247253dieno’s influence spreads far and takes many different forms
>>20247253Kek you mean Koroku? He used to be Endo's pupil so makes sense
>>20246571Tweeted and deleted about the Gabe news
>>20247253>a dude in actual joshi gear with PAWG strapsgyatt bros rise up!
>>20247382ruh roh, the money mark will get him suspended
>>20247382>>20247434Celebrating a wrestler getting hurt as a commentator is a general no-go tbf
>>20246836Surely this is Abe leading to his signing.
NJPW more than anything needs to put the wrestlers in their place.Embarrassing lack of discipline, encouraging buffoonery.
>>20247434This is legit worse than Charlton last year. Wishing/being happy about an injury is basically never a good look
>>20248015Thing is, NJPW wrestlers are all ironic shindy faggots at heart and the higher ups don't care about Bushiroad's wrestling branch, they just want to have some joshis draining their balls.
Walker Stewart was right. Fuck Gabriel Kidd.
>>20247995I thought he was dead
>>20248303Hikaru Sato can do anything
>>20248105Gabe is a blatant heel openly shitting on the company in this scenario so it's not as egregious
Insider-kun, who is facing Tsuji?
>>20249792nta (if they even are more than a meme) but Finlay is rumoured. Which if he does and loses it's basically entering humiliation ritual territory for Finlay.
>>20249792insider mentioned that it was zsj.
>>20247995Further confirmation
New Japan Stacies look like THAT?!https://x.com/despe_invi/status/2044587706270060867
>>20251148nigga in the 1st pic need to pull his shorts out
>https://eplus.jp/sf/detail/4519260001>DDT Pro-Wrestling vs. New Japan Pro-Wrestling: One-Way Showdown PART 2>~Sasadanngo Army vs. Yano Army: 5-on-5 Elimination Team Tournament~2026/6/8(Monday)
WHERE'S MY FUCKING MUSIC
>>20247205SOURBOY
wrestling grimtaco
>>20251567>Jun Kasai poses with two fans
Humiliation ritual
Street Fighter trailer dropped, Goto gets 2 quick scenes towards the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt4X4FvXk2A
>>20253198He probably only has like 4 scenes in the whole movie which makes the idea that he skipped the entire G1 over if really really funny
grim
>>20254233You should check out Smackdown tomorrow it's the go home show
The future of Japanese wrestling is Yuma Anzai
ム
Despecito Invitation in 40 minutes
Abe is so fucking based
>>20254233this fat chud is NOT my Ace
https://www.njpw.co.jp/640889New Japan rebranded a show they booked in between Dontaku & BOSJ opening day as a true prelude to Dominion, which I guess is where a bunch of matches get booked before the Jrs take over the schedule. Oiwa & Fujita are the only TMDK guys booked for it so I guess Zack isn't Gabe's replacement.
>>20257520It's the tough fat boy era anon
>>20251235Well no one wants to watch him so the gimmick fits
I heard Tanahashi went into a restaurant, and ate everything in the restaurant, and they had to close the restaurant.
>>20254233What are his options with those knees? An elliptical?
>>20258083A lovely swim will do the trick
>>20258180He even knows of an excellent pool
Imma be honest, I don't like seeing deathmatch stuff in my New Japan
Shota Umino (29)
>>20258399You specifically mean the barbed wire spots and shit right? Cuz I love when they avoid crossing that line into indie deathmatch slop but still hold up a great bloody match.
>>20258416>29 years old>still hasn't won a title>average white piggu 23 years old shitter is world champ
>>20258451Truly bizarre considered how years ago he was put alongside other promotion aces
Shota just ain't got dat riz.
>>20258478I think this hair was a good fit, just needs to keep his core cut
>>20258919Wolf has definitely lost some weight. I wonder if he's in the G1
>>20258416It's just sad that as soon as crowds were starting to somehow like him they put him in the HoT vortex once again
>>20258478In the top 20 of WOAT looks honestly.
>>20258478fat fucking chud
>>20258478My brother thought that Ueno was in his 20s kek When NJPW gonna poach him
We miss you GOAT (and sanada too)
Nick Gage says on his post-match comments that next time New Japan comes to America he'll kick everyone's assIt's worth noting that he's an ex-convict so he legally cannot enter japanese soil
>>20260419Assumed he hit his wife or something but no that guy robbed a fucking bank apparently lmao
>>20260089Ima be real they have no access to these nu DDT niggas
>>20260090Surreal to think of him and Hiromu in the fed. One day I might open the catalog and see a thumbnail of him and Danhausen or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8PAB9uXdkAPeople like Fuminori Abe here? Rumours about him coming in.
>>20263239Abe is the GOAT but he wouldn't do well in NJPW. Nobody can hang with his style there aside from HENARE. Him and Yuto are bros though so maybe. Weird signing though, Abe's just a midcard shitposter.
>>20260419I genuinely could not tell what was up with his promo in the ring. I've never seen him wrestle or talk before but he shoot seemed worked by Kasai, like a baby throwing a tantrum. Maybe that's his character idk
how dimeless you are if you can get a single WM weekend match?
>>20264178>Abe's just a midcard shitposter.A good 1/4 pf the company is filled with midcard shitposters who aren't nearly as good anymore as Abe.
>>20266591Sure but what do you even do with Abe when he can't hit people really hard? He's a good grappler but that's just half of the appeal, and you could tell he was really holding back against Zack.
>>20266621Can always use a good worker regardless, especially with all the departures recently, one dad retiring and others slowing down, Ishii's health questionable, etc.
>>20262391Fair. After omega and ibushi they not letting their top guys leave>>20266671Abe works in AJPW, DDT and other indies there is a reason why that and not NJPW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ-eHR3y9CA
>>20262894Idek what I hope or expect with those 2. Feels like anything is possible, and I don't mean that in a good way
g-word
save us Inokidroid
>>20269791I feel so much pain looking at aging Kurt. Poor guy.
Dontaku tour starts in like 11 hours but this thread won't survive fumblemania anyway
>>20269791None of these guys have a five-stars singles match between them... BUMS!
>>20274710Wait what, Dave has never rated a Nagata match 5 stars?
>>20277377Not a singles. Just one tag. Pathetic!
>>20277377He has, this anon is just silly
>>20277519>>20277535still seems egregious to just have a tag match in his long career when random flippy shit on Dynamite can get 5 stars
>>20277377Does it matter?It's not like Meltzer is Bret Hart. He never wrestled or trained, never promoted, booked, scouted talent, or was involved with the business in any real way. He has shown time and time again that he doesn't understand storytelling.And when you've no experience your opinion doesn't matter.
>>20278610But you don't have any experience writing criticism so your opinion doesn't matter, I guess.
>>20277377Dave wasn't even watching New Japan during Nagata's prime
>Emergency Press Conference by Toru Yano Decided!>On Monday, April 20 at noon, it has been decided to hold an emergency press conference by player Toru Yano. The event will be live-streamed on NJPW WORLD.>Attendees: Toru Yano, others
>>20281222>>20251269We teaching these goofy niggas a lesson this time
>>20272702Well we're still here so fumblemania must've really lived up to the name
>>20281898Someone is finally gonna teach to Jake Lee how to be funny
>>20281927At least we're not the grimmest promotion for now...
>>20246557>>Road to WRESTLING DONTAKU 2026>SUN 4/19 @ 5:30am(EDT) 10am(BST) Tokyo・Korakuen HallShowtime in 80 minutes>Main event: Unbound Co. (Yuto-Ice & Taiji Ishimori) vs Unbound Co. (Ryohei Oiwa & Robbie Eagles) >6th Match: Unbound Co. (OSKAR & Robbie X) vs Unbound Co. (Hartley Jackson & Kosei Fujita) >5th Match: Unbound Co. (Shingo Takagi, Yota Tsuji, Gedo & Daiki Nagai) vs United Empire (Callum Newman, Jake Lee, Francesco Akira & Zane Jay)>4th Match: Boltin Oleg, Aaron Wolf & Toru Yano vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Don Fale & Dick Togo)>3rdMatch: Goto Revolutionary Army (Hirooki Goto , YOSHI-HASHI & Tatsuya Matsumoto) vs United Empire (HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Jakob Austin Young)>2nd Match: Shota Umino, Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Master Wato vs HOUSE OF TORTURE (Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)>1st Match: Yuya Uemura, Taichi & Masatora Yasuda vs Ryusuke Taguchi, YOH & Taisei Nakahara
hate this fat chud
makabe ducking the fade with heat storm. sad
>>20282537That 2nd match got to be one of the most skippable of all time
>Gino Gambino back on comms for DontakuWE'RE SO BACK
>>20282807we're healing
Callum Newman on what if AEW came calling for him:“I’m signed here [with New Japan]. I live here now and I’ve got a long term contract. I’ve never spoken to Tony Khan. The only people I know there are Will Ospreay and Andrade.I don’t hate them. I said in another interview that New Japan wrestlers are better than AEW wrestlers. Nothing against the company, but the people here are better, that's all.”
Saddest faction of all time
The silence is deafening
Chase hurt Honma :(
We all thought United Empire needs to die last year, HoT DESPERATELY needs to die.
Matsumoto went to the barber and said "give me the Goto"
No way they blow their load on Bishamon vs KOB for Hiroshima right?
I LOVE KAZAKHSTAN
>>20259002BOSJ tour better get wonders going for him
Deadass just run Togo vs Wolf throughout Super Jr and he'll finally be learning something.
>>20282946lol there's no way that'll happen
Get Boltin into a speech making class and strap the rocket already
camera caught that little baby boot from Callum too well
>Chris suggesting Jake Lee take Gabe's place vs Tsujisuspend this nigga again
bro leakin
Grim amount of orange on my screen
>Andrade againoh what the hell sure
There's like 50 guys just in Callis's family and they just run with Andrade again. Grim
Fujita and a fan ten Strong Zeros deep
based german nigga
Gotta love the Osu Car
Yuto looking a little short and bald tonight
ROBBIE ROBBIE ROBBIE!
IN THE AFTERGLOW
Yuto Ice is fucking kino dude
>timid women in the crowd waving middle finger hand merchthe dime machine ICE
>still has Bone Soldier Club on his coat
This Oiwa/Ice feud is fucking dimes
looks like ishimori tweaked his knee
>1,014人
Andrade vs Tsuji again, I guess this timee he gonna take the belt to complete the UE push and the AEw storyline?
>>20284684good fuck Tsuji
>>20283766They've only sold out Korakuen 3 times this year and 2 of those were Fantasticamania. Grim
>>20286114>2 hours no bump on fumblemania sunday>still alive Grim
>>20285154even got outdrawn by stardom
>>20287218You should give Mania a shot tonight, last night was fantastic
>>20283766>>20285154>>20287218grim indeed
